Wrasslin' Fan

Grayson wrote:It's just such a blatant double standard. This is the same guy who will go out of his way to bury a talent from another promotion that he didn't create (see almost anybody who ever came from WCW) but he will roll out the damn red carpet for people like Shayna freaking Bazler, completely interrupting the flow that Hunter is creating. It's ridiculous. Now your entire roster looks like garbage in comparison because you are admitting that somebody from outside of the sport can just waltz in and bulldoze your top talent because you want a freaking headline.

To play devil's advocate, it's not like this hasn't been done to one extant or another by all wrestling promotions. I love New Japan, but when they had a chance to bring in a couple of members of the Gracie family who were MMA guys with had no experience in pro wrestling, they jumped at the chance. Why? Because they could program them against Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata and make some extra money from the curiosity factor. Sakuraba had gone into MMA representing pro wrestling and had beaten every Gracie he had faced. The two Gracies were coming into pro wrestling, in kayfabe, to take him on on his home turf.

Wrasslin' Fan

Grayson wrote:It's just such a blatant double standard. This is the same guy who will go out of his way to bury a talent from another promotion that he didn't create (see almost anybody who ever came from WCW) but he will roll out the damn red carpet for people like Shayna freaking Bazler, completely interrupting the flow that Hunter is creating. It's ridiculous. Now your entire roster looks like garbage in comparison because you are admitting that somebody from outside of the sport can just waltz in and bulldoze your top talent because you want a freaking headline.

To play devil's advocate, it's not like this hasn't been done to one extant or another by all wrestling promotions. I love New Japan, but when they had a chance to bring in a couple of members of the Gracie family who were MMA guys with had no experience in pro wrestling, they jumped at the chance. Why? Because they could program them against Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata and make some extra money from the curiosity factor. Sakuraba had gone into MMA representing pro wrestling and had beaten every Gracie he had faced. The two Gracies were coming into pro wrestling, in kayfabe, to take him on on his home turf.

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Stephen Day wrote:To play devil's advocate, it's not like this hasn't been done to one extant or another by all wrestling promotions. I love New Japan, but when they had a chance to bring in a couple of members of the Gracie family who were MMA guys with had no experience in pro wrestling, they jumped at the chance. Why? Because they could program them against Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata and make some extra money from the curiosity factor. Sakuraba had gone into MMA representing pro wrestling and had beaten every Gracie he had faced. The two Gracies were coming into pro wrestling, in kayfabe, to take him on on his home turf.

WCW had Jay Leno for crying out loud.

Leno & Arquette got them PR... I dont think it was good PR for them or the business. Rodman and Malone I think did a better job

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Stephen Day wrote:To play devil's advocate, it's not like this hasn't been done to one extant or another by all wrestling promotions. I love New Japan, but when they had a chance to bring in a couple of members of the Gracie family who were MMA guys with had no experience in pro wrestling, they jumped at the chance. Why? Because they could program them against Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata and make some extra money from the curiosity factor. Sakuraba had gone into MMA representing pro wrestling and had beaten every Gracie he had faced. The two Gracies were coming into pro wrestling, in kayfabe, to take him on on his home turf.

WCW had Jay Leno for crying out loud.

Leno & Arquette got them PR... I dont think it was good PR for them or the business. Rodman and Malone I think did a better job